Three dialects in Alexander Bessonov's “ABC book for the Bashkirs” Cover Image

Три диалекта в «Букваре для башкир» А. Г. Бессонова
Three dialects in Alexander Bessonov's “ABC book for the Bashkirs”

Author(s): Zarema Nazirovna Ekba, Juliya Victorovna Normanskaya
Subject(s): Language studies, Sociolinguistics
Published by: Институт языкознания Российской академии наук
Keywords: dialect; literary language; Bashkir language; written monuments; A. G. Bessonov;

Summary/Abstract: The article provides a complete analysis of the language features of “ABC book for the Bashkirs” (Kazan, 1907) complied by A. G. Bessonov. We analyzed graphic, phonetic, morphological and lexical characteristics of the text in comparison with the data of modern dialects and of the Literary Bashkir, which allowed to identify the three dialects of the ABC book with modern Argayash, Kyzyl and Katay dialects and to establish, which dialectical features were common for these dialects more than 100 years ago, and which territory their speakers occupied.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 02 (33)
  • Page Range: 101-111
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Russian